12:35AM: Bob McKenzie tweets that the NHL Department of Player Safety will ask “Was it body on body hit with incidental head contact or was it more of a glancing blow that could have been avoided by taking a better line?”

12:04AM: The Rangers have announced that Rick Nash will not return to tonight’s game after talking an elbow from Brad Stuart in the first period.

Stuart was called for the penalty at 2:32 of the first period but Nash played seven more shifts, after the elbow, and a total of 5:53 in the first.